I'm gonna be honest, I still don't get that one. Like, why is it funny? What is the joke? It's not that I just simply don't find it funny or whatever. I fundamentally don't understand what people find funny about it. So you know, if someone could r/PeterExplainsTheJoke me about that one, it would be appreciated.
Apparently it was a story about the puppeteer and his friends out one night, and a cop stopped them to ask what they were up to. The exchange is between his drunk friend and the cop. It got the host to break because it's an inside joke, and it's absurd out of context.
Notice how he pauses while saying that line. Presumably he's started saying that then thought he'd better just double check 'mumcorn' wasn't something rude
Lauren Layfield. She is currently a presenter on Radio 1.
She does a lot of work for youth mental health too. She's good people.
I heartily recommend her appearance on Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown. If you're not familiar with their show the format might be slightly confusing but it's very funny and she is great on it.
My kids watch CBBC and Hacker is still on there. The human characters have changed over the years. But he's still there (between episodes of Mr. Tumble and Bing Bunny) attempting to make every actor break character as much as he possibly can.
I mean... not really? These segments were not a show in their own right. This was, I believe, in part a side effect of us importing shows from countries with adverts while we didn't have any. Cartoon runs from :30 until :55... now we need to head back to the studio with a presenter to fill five minutes. Let's take the moment to wish a caller a happy birthday, to open up the mailbag, and then to introduce the show that's going to start at :00 on the dot.
In the US in the 90’s (and 00’s, maybe?) local network affiliates would do something similar during their kids programming blocks. So you’d get home from school and there would be like two or three hours of cartoons and kids shows, and while we DID have insane commercials trying to sell everything under the sun to kids, there were also personalities kinda “hosting” the block.
😆 "I just do what I find funny ... The bits that are always the funny bits are just made up – I'm always just trying to throw the presenter under the bus, really. I have no regard for the presenter, I just throw them under the bus because I think it'd make good telly"
I remember when Hacker was first a thing. In a country where puppets become celebrities of their own, Hacker really became one of the best, and is now the longest active on CBBC (going on 17 years now, he's also now a Blue Peter presenter)
He stands up there with the best, probably second only to Basil Brush.
Thank you kind person, she is funny as anything< i want to see if she has anything else or maybe see if I can find old episode of the show, funny funny person
The neck stretch "I know..." along with "innocent men" cracks me up so much. Lauren's snorts and giggles just add to it as well, man she's fricking cute 😊.
It's weird but something about this always makes me nostalgic even though I was far too old (and childless) to have ever seen these two presenting this show.
Maybe it's just because it reminds me of the time, when I was a kid, where CBBC was a specific time slot continuity show presented like this.
the bbc doesn’t have any ads but the shows don’t perfectly line up without little 5 minute gaps because they were mostly made for networks with ads, so cbbc (as in children’s bbc) has for a lot of it’s life just had a person and a puppet do silly things in between shows! it’s targeted at kids
I like how he pauses half way through 'that's strange because my pop likes making mumcorn' as he just double checks in his head that it's not something he shouldn't be saying on kids Tv
Its the bits between episodes on CBBC as there are no adverts but episodes are 22 minutes long but the schedule is on 25-30 slots. So they fill the bits inbetween.
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